Development Associate; BTGB

Breakthrough Greater Boston (BTGB) is a transformative college access and teacher training program. BTGB offers six years of academic enrichment and college preparation to middle school and high school students with high potential but limited opportunities. Simultaneously, BTGB recruits, trains and inspires a diverse cohort of high achieving college students to become the next generation of urban teachers. Leveraging a Students Teaching Students model, BTGB provides engaging, tuition-free academic programming during the summer and after school.

Our students gain the skills and motivation to succeed in rigorous high school courses and, ultimately, in college. Meanwhile, our teachers gain hands‑on experience, research-based training and coaching from professional educators.

Over the past eight years, 97% of our graduating students have matriculated to college, and 82% of them have persisted through their undergraduate years. On average, more than 70% of our graduating teachers have gone on to pursue careers in education. After two decades of success at our original Cambridge site, BTGB embarked upon a significant program expansion and opened a second site in Boston in the summer of 2013 and a third site in Somerville in 2018.

As an independent 501c3 nonprofit, Breakthrough Greater Boston is part of The Breakthrough Collaborative, a national educational movement working to improve educational outcomes for youth across 25 U.S. cities.

With a deep commitment to our mission, BTGB operates with the highest standards of integrity and best practices, while also enjoying the ability to be innovative and flexible to meet the evolving needs of our students, families and teachers. Our team is diverse, high‑performing and dedicated. We continue to build an organizational culture that emphasizes our core values for every member of our community:

• Spirit :
  We cherish and embody the youthful energy and spirit of our students and teachers
• Continual Learning :
  Everyone in our community has something to learn and something to teach
• Team Together :
  We all chip in to accomplish whatever is needed for our teammates and the broader organization
• Student Centered :
  Our students are our first priority and our decisions center around what benefits our students
• Equity and Opportunity :
  We value diversity of identity, background and thought. We treat everyone with dignity and respect
• Excellence in Everything :
  We maintain high expectations for ourselves

Breakthrough Greater Boston encourages individuals of all backgrounds to apply for this position, and we do not discriminate on any basis prohibited by applicable law. We celebrate the diversity of our world and our community, and we seek to build a team that reflects that diversity in every way. We welcome and encourage all qualified applicants who share that same vision, as we wish to engage all those who can contribute to our work and this mission.

BTGB is currently seeking a motivated and professional Development Associate to play a critical role in the organization’s development function as we expand our reach, programmatic impact and the funding base necessary to support such growth. The Development Associate will be someone who has exceptional project management and communication skills, is highly detail oriented, takes tremendous pride in their work and strives for excellence.

They will be excited about making a real impact in people’s lives, enjoy new challenges and be eager to help extend the impact of BTGB’s work to more students and teachers. The Development Associate will report to the Director of Development and Partnerships and also work closely with the Executive Director, Director of Operations, Program Team and interns.

A successful Development Associate will:

• Manage the organization’s grant calendar and submissions, lead proposal and report writing and keep an active list of funding prospects.
• Maintain and provide analysis of all development data in the organization’s database, eTapestry, including regularly updating information that’s essential to managing donor and partner relationships.
• Support donor cultivation and stewardship…